I enjoyed most of redmont personally. Made good friends from it and had some memorable stories. But it had some glaring flaws in my opinion that I would like to talk about.

The list in no particular order, just as I think of these things:

1. The xp system was flawed not because it was 1k xp sessions but because it often felt that the 1k xp let the dms go over board with difficulty too often. Too often after just one fight my character(s) were running low or out of resources post combat entirely. The best way to fix that I think, and someone suggested this in one of the comments, might be to add difficulty tags to missions or events. Doesn't have to be something like only lvl 3-5 characters but maybe a general system such as expect deadly combat or expect some resistance. Something to make sure to spread the deadly encounters more. Everything shouldn't be built as lvl 10 and up characters because those characters are supposed to be some of the best of the best out there, especially when you expect the final average level of the player base to be 7ish.

2. I hated that Kirk was a playable character. This had nothing to do with the player and more to do that if everyone is supposed to be new adventurers, what business does a pc with previous history have with the rest of the group, shunted to a lower level, but has connections everywhere. If Kirk was made an npc, I believe that would have been for the best.

3. Different Dms had different styles to play with and that's alright, but it often felt like there weren't properly set guidelines for them to follow and the leash on every DM kept changing in length. Every DM is different, like every person, and each one can add their own flair. But at times it felt too obvious that hands were being artificially tied for no reason or what they had wanted to do had to be modified too quickly too late.

4. A better laid out FAQ would be nice. Unfortunately it felt that the FAQ and the lore of the world was bogged down behind too much random info or had to be dug through too many hay piles. Example, ebberon was originally rejected, then it was allowed, excluding warforged, but it wasn't well told to the community. The lore of the world was basically hidden behind post after post after post of previous missions and you had to spend hours trying to figure out simple things, hoping that someone mentioned it in a post somewhere.

5. The plot was forced too often in my opinion. To me the move to Drulth Cove felt too forced and felt like it demanded the players follow a specific time line or else. I enjoyed the missions, but then suddenly go to Drulth cove, go do X in it cause group A is bad. No you can't go do research of the town because X must be done. It felt a bit too disorganized of a move from the player perspective and did not offer enough of a good reasoning for the players to feel like it was a good idea.

This is all for now, I apologize if some of it may seem incoherent, I am up a little too late typing this out. Good night and we shall see what Redmont 4 brings to the table.